John Edward Hasse & Universes in THE MATRIX

John Edward Hasse — by the small-world principle — is within 6 degrees of most humanity. The matrix uses the principle behind this phenomenon to position the world's artists within discoverable reach of each other, and the planet.
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Who & Where

Name: John Edward Hasse
City/Place: Washington, D.C.
Country: United States

Life & Work

Bio: Hasse is a music historian, pianist, and award-winning author and record producer. He serves as Curator of American Music at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, where he was founding Executive Director of the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, an acclaimed bigband, and where he founded the national Jazz Appreciation Month, celebrated every April throughout the U.S.

Hasse is the author of a critically acclaimed biography, Beyond Category: The Life and Genius of Duke Ellington,with a foreword by WyntonMarsalis, and the editor of a major illustrated history, Jazz: The First Century,with forewords by Tony Bennett and Quincy Jones.

Library Journal called the book “a major contribution to the understanding of jazz.” At the Smithsonian, Hasse was co-Director of America’s Jazz Heritage, a 10-year, $7-million partnership with the Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund. He led the Institution’s efforts to acquire the 200,000-page Duke Ellington archive, and curated the traveling exhibition Beyond Category: The Musical Genius of Duke Ellington,which toured to 12 museums and 50 libraries. He also led the museum’s initiative to acquire the archives of Ella Fitzgerald, and co-curated the exhibition Ella Fitzgerald: First Lady of Song. He is editor of Ragtime: Its History, Composers, and Music; producer-annotator of the two-CD set Beyond Category: The Musical Genius of Duke Ellington; and producer author of the book and three disc set The Classic Hoagy Carmichael.

Hasse earned a B.A. Cum Laude at Carleton College, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Indiana University, and in 2001 Walsh University awarded him an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters. He also holds a Certificate in Business Administration from The Wharton School, and formerly worked in marketing management for Procter & Gamble. He served as the principal advisor to the U.S. Postal Service on its stamp series Legends of American Music that began with Elvis Presley. He has earned two ASCAP-Deems Taylor Awards for excellence in writing on music, and two Grammy Award nominations. A talented educator, he is a popular lecturer and recitalist. He has presented programs throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe, and Asia. As an expert on 20th century American music, he has been interviewed on television (CNN, Headline News, PBS, CBS’ Sunday Morning, Entertainment Tonight,etc.), on radio (National Public Radio’s All Things Considered and Morning Edition, the Voice of America, BBC, etc.), and in newspapers (The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Washington Times,The Wall Street Journal,etc.).

Hasse is a contributor to seven encyclopedias.

Contact Information

Email: john@johnedwardhaase.com
Telephone: 202 595-1818

Media & Markets

▶ Book Purchases: http://www.johnedwardhasse.com/John_Edward_Hasse/Author.html
▶ Website: http://www.johnedwardhasse.com
▶ Article: http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-brazilian-beat-that-charmed-the-world-11577275201
▶ Article 2: http://syncopatedtimes.com/john-edward-hasse-the-music-man/

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THE MATRIX WAS BUILT HERE, inspired in (the kabbalah-inspired fiction of) Borges' El Aleph, that in the pillar in Cairo's Mosque of Amr, where the universe in its entirety throughout all time is perceivable as an infinite hum from deep within the stone.

The Brazilian "aleph" doesn't hum... it sings.

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Given the immense untapped power of the small-world phenomenon, from Brazilians the matrix was expanded to include nodes per jazz artists, given jazz's common roots with Brazilian music (nodes based in publicly available information; some artists we informed — Bob Mintzer, Kamasi Washington, David "Fuse" Fiuczynski, Vijay Iyer, Greg Osby — and got thumbs up, others we'll get to), and moved on from there. Artists/academics are welcome to create their own nodes and curate (connect to other artist nodes, so that others may follow). BTW, our logo is a cortador de cana, cane cutter. It was designed by Walter Mariano, professor of design at the Federal University of Bahia to reflect the origins of the music the shop specializes in.

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